Being short of time as I’m travelling tomorrow, I have shamelessly stolen Deebee7‘s prognostications.
But first, I’m sure we can all rejoice that Stuart McCloskey has kept his starting place on the Ireland team with Aki relegated to the bench.
Your results for the weekend:
Tonga v Uruguay: Tonga by 14 – Tonga are enjoying playing against Spanish speaking sides, and will dish the pain once again!
Italy v South Africa: South Africa by 4 – Boks have had two narrow losses and will look to get their tour on the board, with four straight losses for the two sides so far. Bench to haul them over the line.
Wales v Georgia: Wales by 19 – good win for Wales last week and they’ll look to build on that (and cement their place in the 6N at Georgia’s expense).
Romania v Samoa: Samoa by 6 – just because I don’t have a clue, but Samoa seem to better at the moment.
Scotland v Argentina: Argentina by 3 – Did Scotland blow a gasket against the Kiwis last week? Argentina have some good scalps this year and will look to take a Scottish one on their own turf.
England v New Zealand: New Zealand by 9 – don’t think it’ll be a shellacking, but the Kiwis are cruising this November tour after a dodgy start against Japan.
Ireland v Australia: Ireland by 8 Aussies are one from three, but all their matches have been single point affairs so far. Ireland will put a bit of distance on the scoreboard, but not that much.
France v Japan: France by 24 Japan won’t be as bad as they were against England, but they also don’t have the ability to step up and close the gap that much either. France for win 13 on the trot and getting within touching distance of some serious records.
Onna telly this week
Friday 18th November
| Sale v Harlequins | 19:30 | BT Sport 1 |
Saturday 19th November
| Italy v South Africa | 13:00 | Amazon Prime |
| Wales v Georgia | 13:00 | Amazon Prime |
| Scotland v Argentina | 15:15 | Amazon Prime |
| England v New Zealand | 17:30 | Amazon Prime |
| Ireland v Australia | 20:00 | Amazon Prime |
Sunday 20th November
| France v Japan | 13:00 | Amazon Prime |
Ovally Balls 
Vunipola seems to have hurt himself running backwards at the scrum.
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Mako’s clownshow scrummaging wins an undeserved penalty! Ref will blush when he watches that on replay.
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If Faz doesn’t make gimme kicks, there is no point in him.
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Boks are trying to play the ball, but England aren’t giving an inch of space. Pretty tough up front.
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Who is that naughty no. 5? He’s enormous!
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@Thaum – Jonny Hill, of Exeter. You probably don’t recognise him, as he now has a sensible haircut and doesn’t look like he’s been sheared by a blind man.
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You know you’re watching an awful game when one of the summarisers calls it a “chess match”!
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Seems to me England are chickening out of the scrums and getting away with it.
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Cheers, Refit!
Dab – oh, I don’t know – it’s quite entertaining for a neutral.
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Dab, I have a feeling this’ll open up in the 2nd half. Both sides want to play, but defence has won the day so far.
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Jonny Hill, as was
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Am sure SA sealed off a couple of times in that last passage of play.
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Lovely try!
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Wow, what a finish
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Refit – oh dear. That is the world’s worst mullet, and there’s no such thing as a good mullet.
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Oh, fantastic try!
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That was a lovely glide in-out by Arendse.
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@Thaum
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Oh fuck yes! Oh yes!
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Definitely one forward pass in that try, and maybe two.
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I think the Mish is the only person who can almost carry off a mullet. And that’s because his hair is curly and he doesn’t shave the bit above his ears.
Faf’s moustache is also horrific. Worse than his goal-kicking.
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England getting a yellow here
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Faf’s tache does make him look even more like a blond Matt Berry though.
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Can’t see where any points are going to come for England!
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Happy with that half on the whole. It’s a tough old match, but the Boks seemed to be getting on top in the last 10 minutes or so and also have absolutely stunning firepower out wide. If they just don’t force it, they could really cut loose. And may need to: I’m sure the Kiwis were happy at half time last week.
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It’s not often you see a 15 square up against an 8 and the 15 is the bigger man.
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Ooh, a little bit of niggling, I reckon England could get Roos in the bin.
Not a fan of how Faf launched himself at Smith, in that tackle. Glad that didn’t connect.
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*head bangs on desk*
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Athletic by Faf.
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I can’t see what England are trying to do. I can’t see EJ’s plan. It’s just dismal.
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England have been duffed in the scrums all night. Last one was a beautiful thing to see. Assuming I’m not too far behind!
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Crikey! Didn’t know Faf could do that! Malherbe has been very good tonight. Hope du Toit has a good last 20.
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Red? From distance, to the face.
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Maybe England will have a chance now?
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Deffo red
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Spotted that at the time. Don’t know why the ref didn’t as he was right in front of it!
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Comedy lineout!
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Dumb. Deserved. What was he thinking? That’s our scrum dominance gone. Or does it go uncontested? No idea, but we were in such control and then that shit. FFS!
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Malcolm Marx you beauty!
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Jones OOT!
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Malherbe has been brilliant
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This has become my hobby horse of late, an international winger should score from he space Nowell made for himself, but he is caught easily
oh, England score anyway
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The trust has made the scoreline look vaguely respectable when it didn’t deserve to be.
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The Savvo defence is outstanding, same in the URC, the systems are absolutely top notch
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Worse run of form for England since the Johnson era!
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Well, that was Deebee-pleasing.
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That was very satisfying! Boks were very good (not excellent, a bit too panicked early on and another red card) and really took it to England. Although not how Eddie and Maro were talking about before the match: just brute force, route one stuff. They clearly didn’t watch the France and Italy games and I’m getting very excited about the combination of brutal forward power and electric outside backs.
England? If Eddie has plans up his sleeves I’d humbly suggest he’s wearing a wife beater vest.
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Munster score against Connacht.
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Deebs – I’m feeling pretty proud that we beat the Boks after that!
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And Connacht score! 5-10.
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